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Breaking News Anne Frank’s Step-Sister Speaks Out in New Book
As the step-sister of World War II diarist Anne Frank, Eva Schloss was in great demand when she went public with her story of surviving Auschwitz but now she hopes a new memoir will highlight another issue – surviving life after the Holocaust. Schloss, 83, said it was increasingly important that aging Holocaust survivors pass…
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Opinion Europe’s Foundation of Ashes and Dust
Europe’s foundations are constructed upon ashes and dust. They are built where the walls of the ghettos were once erected around overcrowded quarters in Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow. They are built upon the pits of Babi Yar and the mass graves made across Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. They are built upon the ruins of…
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Breaking News Anti-Semitism Still Widespread Say Netanyahu and Peres at Yad Vashem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres opened the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies on Sunday at Yad Vashem with a warning. In a solemn address, both leaders warned of the anti-Semitism that still exists in the world, 70 years after the Holocaust. Peres addressed the rise of extreme right parties in Europe as an…
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Breaking News Rockets From Gaza Strike Southern Israel on Eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck southern Israel on Sunday, causing no damage or injuries, a police spokesman said. Last week rockets fired by Gaza militants spurred Israel to carry out air strikes on the territory, the first since the ceasefire that ended an eight-day war between Israel and Hamas in November. Police…
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Breaking News Global Anti-Semitism Increased by 30% in 2012
Global anti-Semitism increased by 30 percent in 2012 over the previous year, an annual report found. Following two years of decline, there was a “considerable escalation” in the level of violent acts and vandalism against Jews in 2012, according to the global anti-Semitism report for 2012 presented Sunday by the Kantor Center for the Study…
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Breaking News Facebook Removes Anti-Semitic Page With Graphic Holocaust Images
Facebook has removed a page featuring anti-Jewish content, including a photo of murdered Jews in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen with the headline “Lazy Jews.” In response to a formal complaint by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, Mia Garlick, Facebook’s Sydney-based manager of communications and policy, confirmed Saturday that the Jewish memes page was…
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Opinion Remembering How Polish Jews Lived, Not Just How They Died
In the summer of 1939, when I was 8 years old, a family friend brought me from Warsaw, Poland, to join my parents, who were in the United States on business. My parents had decided that it was no longer safe to return to the country where our family had lived for generations as members…
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The Schmooze Holocaust Notes From Underground
“No Place on Earth” is an amazing story of survival, a testament to the human spirit and, on Yom Hashoah, another reminder that we must never forget. In 1993, spelunker Christopher Nicola discovered some man-made artifacts while exploring caves in western Ukraine. Only these weren’t the remains of some ancient civilization, but remnants from five…
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Yiddish אַ פּרעכטיקע אויסשטעלונג פֿונעם פֿאָרטונאָוו־אַרכיוו אין יעל־אוניווערסיטעטA superb exhibit of the Fortunoff Archive at Yale
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Fast Forward Yehuda Bauer, preeminent historian of the Holocaust, dies at 98
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Fast Forward In Philadelphia’s suburbs, Jewish canvassers target Jewish voters
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Fast Forward 2 pro-Israel activists arrested for violence at UCLA encampment last spring
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